Amid talk that a Republican-controlled Congress may not be willing to write a “blank check” for Ukraine, Kyiv’s message to the GOP is that they need to provide money to fund the Ukrainian government on top of the weapons they need to fight Russia.
Ukrainian officials say they’re not worried they will lose military aid if the GOP takes over after the midterms, but they fear the economic aid may dry up. Kyiv is expecting the US to hand over at least $18 billion to cover its budget deficit for 2023.
Daniel Vajdich, a lobbyist for the Ukrainian government, told POLITICO that Ukraine expects even “more robust” weapons packages from Republicans but is worried about the budgetary aid.
“There’s a recognition in Kyiv that they’re going to have to work with Republicans to help them understand that support for Ukraine can’t just be about guns,” Vajdich said.
Vajdich expects Congress to pass the budgetary aid needed for 2023 during the lame-duck session before the new Congress is sworn in this January. But he says that Ukraine will need such support for years to come.
According to a report from NBC News, lawmakers in both parties in Congress are planning to push through a new massive aid package for Ukraine before January that could be worth around $50 billion to cover 2023. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) recently said more US aid for Ukraine was on the way and would be included in an omnibus spending bill that will be passed this fall.
How many states are in the Union again?
A, I believe the answer is 52.
“Ukraine Tells GOP the US Needs to Give More Than Just Weapons Kyiv expects military aid from Republicans but is worried about economic aid”
Zelensky EXPECTS; so who does this creep think he is? With any luck General Armageddon will grind Ukraine into dust as soon as the ground freezes and the world can try to fix the economics of Joey Biden which lead to inflation and misery.
“With any luck General Armageddon will grind Ukraine into dust”
Sure. Kill them all. Such a warm thought on an antiwar site.
Finally, an antiwar sentiment instead your usual anti USA.
The subject didn’t call for it, otherwise I would have obliged.
The US Neocon death merchants, Israel-firsters all, are 100% responsible for this slaughter.
It is civilizationally compulsory for rational and capable global actors in possession of state power to defend civilization from state criminals. In this moment those global criminals are the AngloZionist Neocon tyranny. When the world is rid of global/state criminals, then the sort of war we see now in Ukraine will no longer be compulsory. Until then …
I’m with you regarding opposition to war, but until the causes of war, the global/state criminals, are stripped of their power to make war, then war against their criminality will remain a necessity.
Only the intransigence and criminal-minded pathology of the Neocon tyrants keeps the slaughter in Ukraine going. It could all end tomorrow — today even. Not one more Ukrainian young man conscripted into uniform, not one more Ukrainian civilian, need be killed or mutilated. This tragedy could be brought instantly to a close by the simplest of expedients: Ukraine’s unconditional surrender.
Why the stubbornness? (Well, we know why.) Whether now or later, the outcome is clear: Russian victory, Ukrainian defenestration, and NATO’s humiliation and defeat, ie Neocon defeat.
The whole business is particularly tragic since the outcome of total Russian victory has been clear since even before the war — “SMO” — began. Russia’s overwhelming military dominance has never been in doubt by anyone with genuine military expertise, the US Neocon-controlled media propaganda war notwithstanding.
The good news, such as it is: the Neocon tyranny’s plan for global supremacy — to wit, the Wolfowitz Doctrine — and the war against the entire world, is being defeated right before our eyes. That defeat will bring with it a new, multipolar, and perhaps more just, world.
That is, if the rabid Neocons can be prevented in their desperation from unleashing total nuclear war.
Good luck to you all.
Boy Howdy, Jeff, you said it all!
Need our allies in Congress to attempt to seperate it for as long as possible to highlight the cost of 2014 Regime change & defacto Obama State Dept/2014uniparty imperialism. War Pigs don’t like to be on a diet.
Didn’t he already hide his payoffs, like he once did in the pandora papers? How much does he need to completely kill off Ukraine and severely damage Germany?
Ukraine “expects”; Ukraine DEMANDS.
F*ck Ukraine. You got yourself on the horns of your dilemma all by yourself; now get yourself the f*ck off.
As an Amerikkkan, I DEMAND that MY government house the homeless; I DEMAND that food insecurity is addressed; I DEMAND that lifesaving medications be provided for the uninsured; I DEMAND that all Americans have access to clean water; well, my list of demands could go on indefinitely.
And I DEMAND that my taxpayer dollars cease and desist to go down that rathole known as Ukraine. ZelBoy: use your OWN wealth if you want to continue a war which your actions begat, and that you refuse to negotiate an end to. F*ck you.
Totally!
I think demands often occur when quid pro quo agreements aren’t met. Zelensky didn’t stay the course of war all on his own.
It IS true that, once you start providing aid to an invalid, they will expect you to continue forever. That’s why first steps are very important …
Zelensky can go to hell …
Amen to that. Petty tyrant.
“”Ukraine Tells GOP……. “”
so they went directly to the GOP behind white house back?
So was the idea to weaken Russia or weaken the USA?
What concerns me about this is:
CIA/MIC is calling the shots.
If CIA/MIC fear that the Ukraine gravy train from USA is in peril, then
CIA may meddle in elections.
NB: I am politically in favor for whomever will choke off the flow of arms
and whomever will bring the war to an end via negotiated settlement.
At this time, I think and hope a new congress will do that.
Hopeful, but incredulous.
I don’t want to supply Ukraine with any more weapons or money. That’s it. They need to sit down with their neighbor and work this shit out, and the rest of us need to butt out.
This means a cease fire and talks aimed at resolving the fundamentals which they’re fighting about.
My view is that we can force this – at any time – by telling the Ukrainians that time’s up. We are withholding further support unless there is a negotiated solution. It’s time the world got to move on with issues like global survival.
I don’t want to supply Ukraine with any more weapons or money. That’s it. They need to sit down with their neighbor and work this stuff out, and the rest of us need to butt out.
This means a cease fire and talks aimed at resolving the fundamentals which they’re fighting about.
My view is that we can force this – at any time – by telling the
Ukrainians that time’s up. We are withholding further support unless
there is a negotiated solution. It’s time the world got to move on with issues like global survival.
Same here. The ashtrays in my car are full of environmentally sound burnt green stuff and my rent needs paying until my house is finished. Freedom is not cheap. Maybe 20-30 grand a month and I can be frugal. REMEMBER and prove to yourself that in 2014, pre-Rubber Creepy Joementia and Nuland/Clinton/Rice used mercenaries to MURDER the entire freely elected Ukraine government to install the apparent Soros clone Zelensky. (Nuland was recorded bragging about the “low price” she paid.) He sure looks like Soros at 35. Might really be a clone.
More aid to Ukraine of “printed” script U.S. paper dollars makes the Dollar lose more and more value, and could cause a terible meltdown of its VALUE. Do
the Neocons think that double digit inflation will make the U.S. stronger, 0r that they don’t care how bad things get as long if the U,S can weaken “THEM?” Have any of these Neocons factored in the gigantic nuclear weapons Russia has with delivery methods beyond the defense capabilities??? What EXACTLY they hope yto achieve with this Ukraine is far from clearcut. It almost seems that the purpose is to restore Victoria Newland’s diplo reputation from the frumpy woman who lost Crimea, to the woman who lost Crimea and then recovered it.